Mid Term Practice

Question 1

What is the difference between communicative competence and communicative performance?

Answer 1

The knowledge and awareness that speakers of a language have and use to communicate effectively and appropriately.
And
Communicative performance describes a speaker’s actual speech behavior. (A person’s speech may be associated with routinely pausing, stuttering, repeating words, repairing words and sentences, etc.)

Question 2

Begins to develop complex sentences by embedding clauses and phrases (“Baby is sleeping, so we have to be quiet.”
Which achievement does this fall under content, form or use?

Answer 2

Achievements in form

Question 3

Which of the following is an example of content development during the school-age years?

Answer 3

Understanding lexical ambiguity

Question 4

What disorder interferes with the brain’s ability to interpret, process, and analyze auditory information?

Answer 4

auditory processing disorder

Question 5

How can otitis media be treated?

Answer 5

By antibiotics or pressure equalizing tubes

Question 6

What are the affects of otitis media in the auditory system?

Answer 6

Otitis media is common among children because of both biological and environmental factors. In young children, the eustachian tubes are straight and short in length, making it easier for bacteria to enter and move through the tube and into the ear. Some environmental allergens can make children more susceptible to otitis media.

Question 7

Who does otitis media affect?

Answer 7

Otitis media is common among children because of both biological and environmental factors. In young children, the eustachian tubes are straight and short in length, making it easier for bacteria to enter and move through the tube and into the ear. Some environmental allergens can make children more susceptible to otitis media.

Question 8

What is the most common cause of a conductive hearing loss in adults?

Answer 8

build-up of cerumen

Question 9

By the time the child turns two years, how much of his/her communication should be intelligible, percentage wise?

Answer 9

50%

Question 10

A phonological impairment is referred to as a ____________ impairment.

Answer 10

Phonemic

Question 11

What are phonological processes?

Answer 11

They are patterns of errors that children make when learning speech and language. It is the way they simplify syllables and words to make it easier for them to communicate or produce “adult-like” speech.

Question 12

What is it called when a child’s velum isn’t capable of completely sealing off the nasal cavity?

Answer 12

VPI or vel(o)pharyngeal insufficiency

Question 13

When does a child’s first cleft palate repair typically occur?:

Answer 13

8-12M

Question 14

Velopharyngeal closure is essential for what pressure sensitive consonants?

Answer 14

Fricatives, africatives, and stops

Question 15

Otitis media is often seen in children with cleft palates due to:

Answer 15

Reduced ability to elevate the soft palate , Middle ear fluid build up, and Poor ventilation of the eustachian tubes

Question 16

True or false? Babies with cleft palates produce reduplicated babbling (e.g., mama, dada, baba, etc.) at the same time as typically developing babies.

Answer 16

False

Question 17

What are the characteristics of CAS (multiple answers)?

Answer 17

Inappropriate prosody or melody of speech, Minimal variation between vowels, Delays in their development of speech

Question 18

With apraxia of speech, the location of the impairment is in which of the subsystems of speech production?

Answer 18

Ariculatory

Question 19

The specific site of neurological damage that causes acquired apraxia of speech is located in which of the following?

Answer 19

Frontal cortex surrounding Broca’s Area

Question 20

A six-year-old child who continually produces sound error patterns would most likely present with:

Answer 20

Phonological disorder